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Add to web feed | Local Act | 1931 No 4 |
| Date of assent | 16 October 1931 |
An Act to make Provisions incidental to the Carrying-out of River-improvement and River-protection Works by the South Wairarapa River Board.
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
This Act may be cited as the South Wairarapa River Board Empowering Act 1931.
In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context,—
Local authority means any Council, Board, Trustees, Commissioners, company, body, or persons empowered to make and levy rates
District means the South Wairarapa River District
River Board means the South Wairarapa River Board.
If any works authorized by The River Boards Act 1908, or any other Act, proposed to be carried out by the River Board will be likely to interfere with any road, bridge, or culvert, or other work vested in or under the control of any local authority, or if, in the execution of any such works, the River Board requires to lower or alter any such road, bridge, or culvert, or interfere with any such work, then the River Board before commencing such work shall, unless it obtains the consent of such local authority pursuant to section eighty-four of The River Boards Act 1908, give not less than fourteen days' notice in writing to such local authority, and therewith shall supply full particulars of the work proposed to be carried out.
If the River Board does not within the time specified in the notice receive any objection in writing from the local authority to which such notice was given, it may forthwith proceed with or maintain the work.
If any such objection is received by the Board and an agreement between the River Board and any local authority concerned cannot be reached, the River Board shall refer the matter to the Engineer-in-Chief of the Public Works Department for decision.
The Engineer-in-Chief, or some other Engineer of the Department appointed by him, after making such investigation as he thinks fit, shall determine whether or not the work shall be carried out or maintained as proposed by the River Board, or whether the same shall be carried out or maintained with modifications to be indicated by him.
If in accordance with the last preceding section it is determined that the work, or the work with modifications indicated, should be carried out or maintained, the River Board may forthwith proceed to carry out or maintain the work in accordance with the determination.
Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, the River Board is hereby authorized to contribute to the cost of the formation or erection or alteration by any local authority of any road, bridge, culvert, or other work and the maintenance thereof where any existing road, bridge, culvert, or other work is likely to be interfered with or any new road, bridge, culvert, or other work is rendered necessary by any proposed work of the River Board.
Nothing herein shall apply in respect of the carrying-out by the River Board of any urgent work to meet any emergency.
All rates whatsoever of the River Board shall be made and levied on an acreage basis.
The River Board is hereby empowered to make, levy, and collect on such acreage basis all such rates for all the purposes of and in the manner provided by The River Boards Act 1908, and The Rating Powers Act 1988:
Provided that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to affect the power of the River Board to recover in the manner in which they were made and levied any rates made and levied prior to the coming into force of this section.
A reference to The Rating Act 1925 was substituted, as from 1 October 1925, for a reference to The Rating Act 1908, pursuant to section 120 Rating Act 1925 (1925 No 30). That reference was in turn substituted, as from 1 April 1968, by a reference to The Rating Act 1967 pursuant to section 177(1) Rating Act 1967 (1967 No 123). That reference was in turn substituted, as from 28 June 1988, by a reference to The Rating Powers Act 1988 pursuant to section 209(1) Rating Powers Act 1988 (1988 No 97).
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